Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Bloom: Part 2
SERIES: The Smoky Vale Alliance (Book 4)
AUTHOR: Gianni Holmes
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 420 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 14, 2025
BLURB:
He is truth. My entire existence is a lie.
Together we’re an impossible equation with no solution.
I thought I could outrun my past, bury it in the life I built as a surgeon.
But the moment I fell for Bloom, everything unraveled.
Now my face is everywhere, and they’re coming for me.
I should run, but Bloom is my weakness, my obsession.
Staying puts him in danger. Leaving will destroy him.
How do I choose between the man I love and the life I can’t escape?
Is it selfish of me to ask him to leave his family behind and go on the run with me?
Bloom: Part 2 is not a stand-alone. This book is meant to be read after Bloom: Part 1.
REVIEW:
Bloom’s story is so complex and gritty that it literally took two books and 780 pages to tell this twisted and damaged young man’s story completely. And every single word was vital to his journey to survive and discover real love.
Bloom just lying in the hospital bed and not coming back to Logan was killing the doctor. He had finally accepted that they were together and then the obsessed young man goes and gets mistakenly shot by police after he saved countless lives in the hospital siege. But Bloom’s MC brothers know that Bloom will go berserk if they don’t take care of Bloom’s man while he’s in a coma. Crowe, the Club’s President and the man that literally saved and raised Bloom after they found him, may not approve of Bloom’s relationship and obsession with the surgeon but knows it will gut the boy if Logan is an exhausted mess when he comes out of the coma. So the Blood Hounds are making sure he’s getting some rest and taking care of himself. But Logan has even more on his mind than anyone knows and his hidden past is rapidly catching up with him. He needs to go now but not without his Bloom!
Wow! I knew Bloom’s horrific story from book one but it was even worse than I thought. Add in Logan’s secret past and these two men truly do understand and fit together. And it goes both ways that they are totally and completely over-the-top in love with each other and can’t survive apart. Is it a healthy relationship…HELL NO! But that doesn’t matter because Bloom and Logan are fated to be together. And who more than Bloom to understand his man’s past that is coming after him. I know that honor of the brotherhood is paramount in the two clubs but Bloom has to choose and he’s always going to choose Logan. And Logan will do anything to protect that man he loves with his entire being. They simply can not exist without the other.
Author Gianni Holmes took on what I feel is one of the hardest subjects to deal with let alone write in such a compassionate and respectful manner. She brought Bloom to is with all his horrors that have been dumped on him by his sperm donor and egg donor. Even mentioning the “p” word in context to who they were and what they did to Bloom is outrageous and can’t happen. Then bringing to light the unspeakable horrors of a doctor that you are suppose to trust abusing you in such an outrageous and illegal way was horrifying. But Bloom knew who he could trust and that was his “brothers” first and then his Logan. Because Logan understood and loved him for him. Beyond all his scars externally and internally Logan saw the real man that was his to love and protect.
This is not an easy story to read. And you must read book one before you begin book 2. This is gruesome and gritty. It portrays the worst that humans can do to other humans. But it also shows that, even in the very worst of circumstances, there is hope. It may not appear that way at first but hope can happen and love can heal.
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